Game or toy



M. L. GREENSTRE'ET- AND F. G. ROEDELL.

GAME 0R Tov. APPLICATION FILED NOV- 20 |920.

1 ,402;5 9 6 I Paented Jan. 3, 1922'.

PATENT OFFICE.

MILFRED1L. `@REEKSTBl-E, OF IIAPLEVVOOD, MISSOURI, FREDERICII Gf:

ROEDELL, OF DUBUQUE, IOWA, ASSIGNORS KENNEL, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

ork ONE-THIRD To ARTHUR G.

, GAME on TOY,

To all ill/tom it may concern j :.Be'it known that we, Minrnnn L. GREEN- s'rRnET, of Maplewood, St. Louis County'. Missouri, l and F nnnnlzrcn G. Ronn'lnln of Dubuque, Iowa, citizens of the United States, have jointly invented a certain new and usebed blank partly folded.

Figure 4 is a detail sectionalview'ot one of the tumblingobjects employed'in connection with the game or toy.

Figure 5 is a vertical sectional view through one end of a bed.

This invention relates to a new and useful ilnprovement in games or toys, the oby ject being to construct a device of the character described which is simple and cheap, and one which will prove interesting to adults as well as children.

While we have shown our improved game as comprising miniature twin beds arranged in a room or chamber in which there are two images, or tumbling objects, shaped to represent characteristic figures, it is obvious that these tumbling objects could be differently shaped, such as, for instance, to represent pigs, and instead of beds, the representation of a pen could be used; however, in the form of my invention shown, the object is to cause the two tumbling objects to jump into their respective beds and lie down. The tendency of these objects is to always keep an upright position occasioned by the weighted lower end, as indicated in Figure 4, wherein l indicates Vthe object formed of Celluloid, or other light material, in the base of which is arranged a drop of lead or solder, as indicated at 2. It is the purpose of this weighted end to cause the object to stand on end, as shown in Figure 1.

3 is the box or casing having its inner side walls and bottom preferably decorated with Specification of Letters latent.

colored paper to represent the 'wall paper and carpet of aroom. The top of this box ls 1n the form of va sheet of gla'ssl, which may be hinged or permanently secured in position. y

5 indicates al bed blank preferably made by dies from a sheet of cardboard. This Patented Jan. 3, y1,922. application filed November 20,5,192oseringue. 425,308. f

bed blank is scored or cut at its four corners,

' as indicated by the full lines 6, to form the head and foot boards 7 and 8, respectively. lTongues, 9 are formed by scoring the cardboard along the lines 10. The head and foot piecesare bent along dotted lines ll so that they will stand perpendicular to the main portion of the bed, as shown in Figure 3. Theside pieces are bent downward along the lines12, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig- `ure 3, and the ends 13 of these sides pieces are then i bent inwardly along 'the dotted lines 14 so that they will overlap the tongue portion 9, after which a staple or other fastening means l5 is passed through the portions 13 and 9 to secure them together, whereupon the bed can be placed in an upright position on the bottom of the box and held there by the use `of some appropriatev adhesive material.

In bending the tongues 9 away from the body portion of the bed, an opening ais left near the head and foot boards, respectively, when the cover 16 of the bed, preferably formed of colored paper, is pasted in position over and around the bed, it may be depressed, as shown in Figure 5, to form a slight cavity.

In the form of our invention shown, there are twin beds, that is, two small beds in the same box and two tumbling objects, one for each bed, and by gradually working them down by holding the box at an angle so that they will rest against the head board or footboard of the beds, respectively, and

preferably in the cavities located adjacent a thereto, and then turning the box at a greater angle until the tumbling objects are standing upon the head boards or foot boards, and ythen slowly restoring the box f to its normal horizontal position, the tumbling vobjects can be made to appear as lying down or reclining on the beds. ,n

What we claim is:

l. A game or toy comprisingl a box having horizontallyand vertically dlsposed adjacent walls representing an object, movable VVobjects Weighted at one end only so that they will normally standin an upright position, whereby when said boxV is tilted' so thatthe Weighted .ends of said objects are against a'normally vertical Wall,the restoration of said box to its horizontalrposition will cause said objects to lie downor occupy an abnormal position.

' 2. A game or toy employing a plurality of tumbling objects and miniature representations of beds enclosed in a suitable box, said beds hayingrcovered depressions near then` Vhead boards. p

3. A game or toy comprising aV box With-V in which. is iininovably secured a miniature representation of a bed, said bed being.

formed from a blank which is cut or scored and bent so that its end portions overlap, there being fastening means 'forsaid overlapping end portions, and means for iinmovably securing the lower edges of said end portions to the bottom of the box.

4. A game or toy Comprising a boX for enclosing a -miniature repre-sentation of a bed, said bed being formed from a single blank of cardboard Which is cut or scored to form head boards, foot boards and side pieces, the head boards and foot boards being bent perpendicularly to the main p ortion of the blank vand the side members being bent down with their ends folded over, tongue portions extending from, the head portions and foot portions, respectively, there being fastening devices for securing said bent ends to said tongues.

In testimony whereof We hereunto aiiiX our signatures this'lQt-h of November, 1920. i

MILFRED L. GREENSTREET. FREDERICK G. ROEDELLj 

